Greece Looking for Partner to Construct “the Largest Solar Park in the World”

This news appeared last Friday in Greek, French, Serbian, and English.  The plant will be a photovoltaic solar park of 200 MWp, built on 530 ha of land near the city of Kozani (Κοζάνη) in northern Greece, at a cost of € 600 mln.  The news report says that three firms have already expressed interest in the project: Yingli Solar (英利绿色能源控股有限公司, China), Q-Cells AG (Germany), and SunPower (USA).  (The FT report has “SunEdison” instead of “SunPower”.)

As for this being “the largest solar park in the world”, it goes without saying that once again we are dealing with the sorts of claims that journalists and politicians love to make.  Recall that already back in October it was announced that German investors would be building a solar park of 250 MWp for € 800 mln on 1,000 ha of land at Nova Crnja in northern Serbia (which they, more modestly, boasted as only the largest solar plant in Europe), while the proposed 966-MW Blythe thermal solar park in California already has its necessary permits, not to mention the proposed solar projects (technologies yet to be defined) of 2 GW at Ordos in China, and 8 MW near the Kalihari Desert in South Africa.

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